Improvement in colored-paper shirt-collars



` nying drawings, forming part of this specifica- 'Nirnn STATES PATENTOFFICE.

s. W. H. WARD, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLORED-PAPER SHIRT-COLLARS. f

specification forming'part; of Letters Patent No. 43,728, datcd .iugust`2, '1864.

To all u'hom it may concern Be it known that I, S. 7. H. WARD, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new andusefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Paper Uollars j. and I do hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthercof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use thesame, reference being' had to the accompation, said drawing representinga perspective View of a collar made according to my invention. z

i This invention consists in apaper collar colored in imitation ofcolored collars of linen, muslin, or other textile fabries either byprinting or other suitable means in such a manner that said papercollars will takethe same relation toward the ordinary colored collarsof textile fabrics which the white paper collars take toward theordinary white eollars of textile fabries, and a cheap colored collarcan be produeed which, when new and fresh, will form a good substitutefor the colored collars of textile fabrics. p

The value of a paper collar as a substitute for a collar ot' textilefabries consists, chiefly, in thatit looks quite as well as the textilecollar when clean and fresh, and when dirty it can be thrown awaywithout loss, because the washing' ofan ordinary textile collar costsjust as much, or nearly so, as it costs to buy one of the paper eollars,and particularly for trav- Heretofore all paper collars have been madewhite, and notwithstanding the factthat many persons, particularlytravelers, prefer to wear shirts of colored goods with correspondingcolllars, no colored paper collars have been heretofore manufactured. lnorder to fill this wantI have produced a collar, A, made of paperprinted in imitation to the printed 'or otherwise colored textilefabrics generally used for colored shirts or collars, and my coloredpaper collars form a perfect substitute for oidinary colored collars ot'textile' fabrics. They are produced in the same variety of colors as theordinary colored eollars, and they can be worn precisely in the same wayas the ordinary white paper collars.

I do not wish to eonfine myself in Ithe manufaeture of the colored-papercollars to any particular manner of coloring', and I reservc the rightto apply the color by any convenient means and to change the color as I.may select.

1 elaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new articleof manufacture- A colored paper collar made as set forth.

S. W. H. WARI). Witnesses THEo. TUseI-r, M. M. LiviNes'roN.

